Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® 2010: Give Your Data Meaning (Business Skills)
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ISBN: 0735640580 / Publisher: Microsoft Press, October 2010
Provides information on using PowerPivot in Excel 2010 to create business intelligence models.
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Transform your skills, data, and business—with the power user’s guide to PowerPivot for Excel. Led by two business intelligence (BI) experts, you’ll learn how to create and share your own BI solutions using software you already know and love: Microsoft Excel. Discover how to extend your existing skills, using the PowerPivot add-in to quickly turn mass quantities of data into meaningful information and on-the-job results—no programming required. The book introduces you to PowerPivot functionality, then takes a pragmatic approach to understanding and working with data models, data loading, data manipulation with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), simple-to-sophisticated calculations, what-if analysis, and PowerPivot patterns. Learn how to create your own, “self-service” BI solutions, then share your results effortlessly across your organization using Microsoft SharePoint®.A Note Regarding the CD or DVDThe print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For thosecustomers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book isavailable, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free downloadvia O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download thiscontent, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of thisbook to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the coverimage (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that whilewe provide as much of the media content as we are able via freedownload, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Pleasedirect any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.
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